Nachdem ich gehört habe, dass der kürzlich verstorbene Bram Moolenaar die erste Version seines VIM-Editors auf dem Amiga rausgebracht hat, wollte ich mal schauen, ob man sie auch heute noch im Emulator zum Laufen bekommen kann.
I just wanted to offer my own words of tribute to Bram Moolenaar, creator of the Vim text editor, who died this week.
I first learned Vim around 10 years ago, after an embarrassing incident at work where I was trying to fix a remote server problem over SSH with the boss watching, and the only text editor available was Vim - which I had no clue how to use.
I resolved after that to learn and familiarize myself with Vim so that I wouldn't be caught out again. And, like so many have, I eventually came to love this weird relic of the green screen era. Vim's notion of text is unique, and this gives you a kind of control that just isn't in the wheelhouse of regular text editors. It's one of the things that makes Vim popular even to this day, and I have a Vim buffer open pretty much permanently for my various projects and note-taking.
Rest in peace #BramMoolenaar. The majority of things I produced on a computer during the last 25 years involved #vim in some way. I'm incredibly thankful for all he did.
Bram Moolenaar has passed away. Sad news. Bram was an exemplary open source proponent. His impact with Vim on software development and system administration cannot be overestimated. Will be missed greatly.
RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family